Museums
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
The aristocratic third worldism of the British Museum
“Hawai’i: a kingdom crossing oceans” rebukes American imperialism with traditional monarchy and noblesse oblige
Why we need our National Heritage Service
In defence of the other NHS
Dispatches from the frontlines of the culture wars
Let’s make irrational and censorious “inclusivity” guidance history
Calling bullshit on “The Marbles”
A new documentary about the Elgin Marbles offers cinematic skill and historical bias
The dead hand of decolonisation
A decade into the culture wars, the argument for decolonising museums has run out of steam
Museum of horrors
The Acropolis Museum does not deserve the Elgin Marbles
What have galleries got against British art?
Our curators are embarrassed by our own cultural treasures
A respectful renovation
The redesigned Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery by Selldorf Architects
The Elgin Marbles should stay in Britain
Our elites are abdicating responsibility for cultural stewardship
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?